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The Coca-Cola corporation launched its Sprite drink in 1961 to compete with which similarly famous earlier product? 7 Up

What 1500s tradename for a harnesses maker, later a slaughterer of old horses, and dialectal term for castanets, became slang for testes and verb terms for various states of uselessness? Knacker (the castenets meaning is said [OED] to allude to theonomatopoeic term 'knack', meaning a sharp cracking noise, as in Dutch knak, crack or snap)

The medical term sclerosis refers to the abnormal (what?) of body tissue: Multiplying; Softening; Hardening; or Wasting? Hardening (Latin from Greek skleroun, harden)

The legume plant Glycyrrhiza glabra is commonly called what (also a confectionery derived from its boiled root)? Licorice (or Liquorice)

Sprachgefühl is a German term for the (and possessing the) natural: Eye for a ball; Feeling of language; Poise of a ballerina; or Cunning of a fox? Feeling of language (from sprach, speech/language, and gefühl, feeling)

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